SETTING THE BENCHMARK

This year, the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) held their flagship event from June 11 – 16 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. The week was packed with technical lectures, bootcamps, interactive forums, exhibits, and showcases featuring well over 500 exhibiting...

To say that wireless devices are ubiquitous in our society today would be a vast understatement. In fact, sometimes it seems like wire is only used today for fencing livestock and stringing guitars. The same is true for the use of wire for communications and connectivity—it is diminishing rapidly.

Although the defense industry is still the largest and most mature market for drone sales worldwide, recreational and consumer drones are growing in popularity. In fact, according to Goldman Sachs Research, there were approximately 8 million consumer drone global shipments in 2020 amounting to...

The promise of 5G—along with the speed and reliability it offers—is certainly nothing new. In fact, nearly all the major cellular service providers are delivering 5G, and device makers are offering compatible hardware to take advantage of those networks. However, the infrastructure for expanded 5G,...

Balancing the Benefits and Challenges of a Changing Competitive Landscape

As the world embraces the many economic and strategic benefits of rapidly advancing computing and communications technologies, we must also prepare for the many associated challenges. 2023 will, indeed, be a year of...

Companies across the globe, and especially in the U.S., are beginning to reconsider the geographic footprint of their manufacturing operations. Geopolitical factors, transportation costs, and narrowing of the labor cost divide make localization more advantageous than in the past. The trend is even...

It's no secret that companies that manufacture or source electronic products in the United States stand to gain tremendously from increased public spending by the federal government. From national defense to national security and transportation to telecommunications, the U.S. government is poised...

Have you considered geographic footprint in your engineering and outsourcing manufacturing strategy?

While evaluating outside vendors to engineer or manufacture a product, one of the most obvious needs to be considered is whether they have the capabilities required to build it. This can include ...

For more than 30 years, Benchmark has been a part of the internet and computing revolution by helping our customers develop and launch advanced computing and communications hardware. We work with customers to deliver customized solutions from concept to market, supporting their teams where it's...

Bandwidth is everything, at least for Fifth Generation (5G) cellular wireless networks. With each generation of cellular wireless networks, the number of users and their applications and devices has grown steadily, requiring more bandwidth for more communications. To meet this increased demand for...

Huntsville, Alabama, is one of America's original technology hotspots—especially in the area of aerospace and defense. In fact, Huntsville's nickname is the "Rocket City" because of its long association with U.S. space missions. Huntsville is home to Cummings Research Park, the second-largest...

Failures often promote success. Such is the way of the engineering teams in the failure analysis laboratories at Benchmark. These comprehensive laboratories are dedicated to studying actual and potential failure mechanisms for electronic products. Using an array of test instruments, test chambers,...